Spring is here - BLEEPing Gopher already!!!

AnnaJW · 03-05-2008, 04:52 AM

This guy's a huge one! I swear it's a Woodchuck, but people keep telling me we don't have Woodchucks here. The holes and mounds are HUGE. I dragged my husband out back a few days ago to show him the holes/mounds. And didn't that sucker varmit pop up!!! (I so wish it wasn't so cute)

I parked the lawn mower in the area where the holes were; which worked for a few days. Now the sucker has crossed into my Banana area. I poured Hot sauce all over the mounds today. If he's there tomorrow, I will have to resort to calling a Pro.

CookieCows · 03-05-2008, 09:56 AM

Anna, I don't even want to tell you how my mother gets rid of them! Suffice it to say that she is the most patient, cold blooded, gopher executioner holding a pointed shovel ever to live!

STEELVIPER · 03-05-2008, 10:02 AM

Why not gas him, then blow him up?

Richard · 03-05-2008, 12:40 PM

Speaking of large gophers and woodchucks, have you read the $64 Tomato?

Gophers reproduce very quickly, don't hesitate. Here's a method that works: get the gopher poison that is rated only for gophers. Put a scant 1/2 teaspoon in every hole opening and plug it with a rock, making sure not to cover the poison with dirt or the rock. You want the gopher(s) to die in the hole so that in a year's time the poison and the gopher are inert.

AnnaJW · 03-05-2008, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by CookieCows

Anna, I don't even want to tell you how my mother gets rid of them! Suffice it to say that she is the most patient, cold blooded, gopher executioner holding a pointed shovel ever to live!

That's kind of funny, considering my mom wanted to sit out there and wait for it to pop up. With a shovel in hand. LOL!

Maybe I should go to the local arcade and pratice playing Wack-a-Mole?

CookieCows · 03-05-2008, 02:44 PM

How funny!! Wonder how many sweet whack-a-mole moms are out there?

Wonder who invented that "kids" game???

AnnaJW · 03-05-2008, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by STEELVIPER

Why not gas him, then blow him up?

Time to get out my Caddyshack movie!

AnnaJW · 03-05-2008, 02:48 PM

[quote=Richard;31307]Speaking of large gophers and woodchucks, have you read the $64 Tomato?

I'll have to look that up. Is it just about Gophers and Woodchucks?

Richard · 03-05-2008, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Richard

Speaking of large gophers and woodchucks, have you read the $64 Tomato?

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Originally Posted by AnnaJW

I'll have to look that up. Is it just about Gophers and Woodchucks?

It's about gardening as an extreme sport!

microfarmer · 03-05-2008, 11:28 PM

I'm sorry to hear the bugger's back. You might have to call out the big guns for this one...

I have many cats that roam my back yard that reduce the mole and rodent populations at my house.

pitangadiego · 03-05-2008, 11:42 PM

Macabee 'Ole Reliable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AnnaJW · 03-06-2008, 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by pitangadiego

Macabee 'Ole Reliable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know about those. WAAAHHH!!!!!!!
But someone other than myself is gonna have to set that... I think I'd rather set my mom up on her walker seat, with her shovel. She seriously is into this! LOL!

microfarmer · 03-06-2008, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by AnnaJW

I know about those. WAAAHHH!!!!!!!
But someone other than myself is gonna have to set that... I think I'd rather set my mom up on her walker seat, with her shovel. She seriously is into this! LOL!

Go Mom!!

mskitty38583 · 03-06-2008, 02:36 PM

we should make gopher hunting the next olympic sport. i think your mom might bring home the gold!

microfarmer · 03-06-2008, 03:03 PM

Speaking of standing over the hole with a shovel...

A couple years ago, my cousin and I were sitting around the backyard just after dusk, drinking a few homebrews,

and chatting, when I noticed something moving around in my strawberries. It looked like a giant worm or pink snake at first. Then I noticed a second one next to it. Both were waving back and forth. I got up to look closer and found the snakes attached to the back ends of 2 adolescent possums! My cousin Jack jumps up and grabs a shovel and was holding it above them, but waiting before he swung it.

I told him not to worry, that the strwaberries would grow back, and with that re-assurance, he started a smackin!! There was a wild screeching sound and the thumps of shovel on the ground and clanging as it bounced off my brick border, and I heard one of em go screeching off into the night. I found one fatality, and the other never came back, so I guess he got it too. It was one of the funniest things I've seen. Him just a whacking away at the strawberries. He got so carried away with a smackin' that he even broke a brick in half!

Ahava · 03-09-2008, 12:41 AM

Juicy Fruit. Chew a bit of it, and put it in their hole. It stops their digestion and they die in a couple weeks or so. Get em before they have babies, they have 6-10 of em I've read. After you get rid of em, buy that bottled coyote urine and put it around the border of your property to try and keep the others out.

AnnaJW · 03-09-2008, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Ahava

Juicy Fruit. Chew a bit of it, and put it in their hole. It stops their digestion and they die in a couple weeks or so. Get em before they have babies, they have 6-10 of em I've read. After you get rid of em, buy that bottled coyote urine and put it around the border of your property to try and keep the others out.

Thanks! I have read that; but can you believe I'm having trouble finding that gum?
I ordered some Castor Oil today. Which, I've read, mixed with dish soap and urine, is supposed to make them run.
I'm still looking for Juicy Fruit gum though...

Richard · 03-09-2008, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by AnnaJW

... I ordered some Castor Oil today. Which, I've read, mixed with dish soap and urine, is supposed to make them run.

They'll get diarrhea from it alright!

AnnaJW · 03-09-2008, 01:03 AM

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They'll get diarrhea from it alright!

LOL! Make them RUN!!!!

NANAMAN · 03-09-2008, 01:12 AM

Thats really a bummer to even have to deal with gophers, after waiting for winter to end, so that things start growing again. What's next....? I'm glad we don't have those things. I hope you find an easy, and inexpensive solution.

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